Su Li pushed open the woodshed door and strode into the courtyard.
Saina crouched beside the vegetable patch, both hands shielding the seeds she had just buried. Like a mother hen protecting her chicks, she glared at the gray cat perched atop the wall.
"Don't move." Su Li patted Saina on the shoulder.
The gray cat crouched on the very top of the courtyard wall, its tail swishing back and forth, its yellow-green eyes fixed unblinkingly on the soft earth.
This cat had nerve beyond belief. It had just been scared off by Su Li's second-tier pressure, yet before long, it had sneaked back.
Su Li walked to the base of the wall and looked up at the gaunt gray cat.
The cat was looking at him too.
Su Li reached out.
The movement was casual, not particularly fast. But the speed of a second-tier knight before a stray cat might as well have been cheating.
The gray cat's pupils had only just narrowed. Before it could leap away, Su Li had already firmly seized the scruff of its neck.
The whole process took less than half a second.
The gray cat frantically kicked all four legs in midair, letting out shrill, miserable howls.
Su Li raised the cat before his eyes.
It was truly skinny, its ribs standing out one by one, its gray fur matted into clumps, with several old scabbed wounds on its body. A small piece was missing from one ear, probably bitten off in a fight with another cat.
A stray cat—its life was hardly any better than his in his first life.
"Throw it out! Hurry and throw it out!" Saina waved from behind him.
Su Li did not throw it out.
He turned the cat over and checked its belly. Female. Flat and